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Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:49:23 -0500Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:49:23 -0500Stewart Rhodes Warns Connecticut Gun Law Will Spark Civil Warhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/stewart-rhodes-warns-connecticut-gun-law-will-spark-civil-war-0
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<p>In an <a href="http://armedamericanradio.org/show-archives/2014-12-07">interview</a> on Armed America Radio in December, in which he <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/stewart-rhodes-government-using-ferguson-riots-ebola-immigration-spark-race-war">also warned </a>that the Obama administration is using things like Ebola and immigration to spark a &ldquo;race war&rdquo; and tighten federal control, Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes warned that Connecticut&rsquo;s enforcement of <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/04/us/connecticut-gun-law-overhaul/">a gun law it passed in 2013</a> will turn gun owners against the police and start a civil war.</p>
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<p>The 2013 law <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/04/us/connecticut-gun-law-overhaul/">banned</a> high capacity magazines and some assault weapons, but <a href="http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20130406/connecticut-gun-law-breakdown-of-when-new-rules-go-into-effect-2">allowed people who already had such weapons to keep them</a>. However, some gun owners in the state have refused to register their weapons, thereby running afoul of the cutoff date &mdash; nonetheless, state authorities say they have <a href="http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/troubleshooters/No-Door-to-Door-Gun-Confiscations-State-251346661.html">no plans to confiscate</a> those weapons.</p>
<p>Rhodes, however, is pretty sure this door-to-door confiscation is going to happen and that when it does, gun owners are going to start giving police their weapons &ldquo;bullets-first.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I think it will be a civil war, frankly,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;ll depend upon whose door they go to first, but I think eventually they&rsquo;re going to run into a veteran, or just a hard-core gun owner, a Three Percenter, who&rsquo;s going to say, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m not going to give them to you, you&rsquo;re going to get them bullets-first.&rsquo; And that&rsquo;s how it&rsquo;s going to go.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s going to be gun owners who are going to fight back,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And once that starts, there are other gun owners who are not going to sit and wait for them to come to their door, they&rsquo;re going to go active right now.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He added that police officers should refuse to enforce the law out of fear for their lives: &ldquo;You have a duty to defend the Constitution and keep your oath. And it&rsquo;s more important that you do that than your pension, it&rsquo;s more important than your job, because you&rsquo;re not going to have either one if it turns into a civil war and we open the gates of hell. And that&rsquo;s just the bottom line.&rdquo;</p>
Miranda BlueC4Connecticutgun violenceOath KeepersStewart RhodesFighting the Right49931Wed, 04 Feb 2015 15:49:23 -0400ConnecticutLarry Pratt: Gun Activist 'Revolt' In Connecticut Is Channeling The Spirit Of Martin Luther King, Rosa Parkshttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/larry-pratt-gun-activist-revolt-connecticut-channeling-spirit-martin-luther-king-rosa-parks
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<p>During an interview yesterday with WorldNetDaily&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/citizens-revolt-refuse-to-register-guns/">Radio America</a>, Gun Owners of America head Larry Pratt said that &ldquo;the revolt is underway&rdquo; against Connecticut&rsquo;s bipartisan gun safety laws. He added that his group is encouraging gun owners and police officers to refuse to comply with or enforce the law, and is supporting primary challengers to &ldquo;RINOs&rdquo; in the Connecticut state legislature who backed the new laws.</p>
<p>Pratt, who recently claimed that politicians <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/larry-pratt-glad-members-congress-have-healthy-fear-being-shot">should have a &ldquo;healthy fear&rdquo; of being shot</a>, said later in the interview that people are &ldquo;prepared to go to jail&rdquo; to resist the gun safety regulations. &ldquo;If you get so many tens of thousands of people saying that [they won&rsquo;t comply], it becomes rather difficult to imagine how that can happen, especially if there aren&rsquo;t any police around to arrest them in the beginning,&rdquo; he said.</p>
<p>Pratt, who has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/meet-man-fox-news-chose-debate-gun-laws-mark-kelly">links to white supremacists</a> and is an <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/larry-pratt-wants-happy-africans-mentor-surly-african-americans-warns-obama-building-private">apartheid apologist</a>, even compared such gun activists to Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks: &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s an American&rsquo;s right to exercise his conscience, he has to be prepared to take the consequences. Just like Martin Luther King, he exercised his conscience, and Mrs. Parks sat down right in the front of the bus, now she was taken off the bus and escorted away and I think she was put in jail for a bit, so she was prepared to take the consequences. But she had decided &lsquo;no more,&rsquo; and the people of Connecticut I think are in the same frame of mind.&rdquo;</p>
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Brian TashmanC4ConnecticutGun Owners of AmericaLarry PrattSecond AmendmentWorldNetDaily Fighting the Right46122Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:20:55 -0400ConnecticutPastor Compares CT School Massacre to Gay Marriagehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pastor-compares-ct-school-massacre-gay-marriage
<p>Homeschooling activists Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner dedicated today&rsquo;s <em>Generations Radio</em> <a href="http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/generations-radio/player/the-connecticut-school-massacre-a-very-sick-nation-317156.html">program</a> to blaming the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on the public school system (<a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/12/16/friends-newtown-gunmans-mother-home-schooled-son-kept-arsenal-of-guns/">the shooter was homeschooled</a>). Swanson said Americans shouldn&rsquo;t be shocked by the violence since the country upholds abortion rights, and Buehner said that people should not be surprised the shooting took place if they support other forms of &ldquo;rebellion against God&rdquo; like gay marriage.</p>
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<strong>Swanson</strong>: It is interesting that this is probably one of the most shocking experiences; America has been stunned by what happened. I think there is still somewhat of a conscience. There may not be a conscience about killing the unborn children, there may not be as much of a conscience of killing twenty-seven year olds, but apparently when these bodies of little six and seven year olds riddled by bullets are being examined by the experts, hundreds of thousands and millions of people in America are still somewhat stunned, apparently they have some level of moral outrage left for the slaughter of the innocents in Newtown, Connecticut.<br />
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<strong>Buehner</strong>: I think you&rsquo;re exactly right. The liberals are proposing that we as a nation follow a kinder, gentler flavor of rebellion against God. They&rsquo;d like a rebellion that stops a little short of murdering kindergartners. They want the rebellion that involves gay marriage; they want the rebellion that embraces rape rap and abortion and a media that is in utter defiance against the law of God. That&rsquo;s the kind of society they want; they want a society that&rsquo;s in rebellion but not that much rebellion.<br />
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<strong>Swanson</strong>: Right.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanConnecticutDave BuehnerKevin SwansonSandy HookC341793Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:30:42 -0400ConnecticutWildmon: Satan Carried Out the Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary Schoolhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wildmon-satan-carried-out-shooting-sandy-hook-elementary-school
<p>American Family Association president Tim Wildmon <a href="http://www.afa.net/Radio/show.aspx?id=2147491263&tab=video&video=2147530356">offered up</a> his thoughts on last week's tragic school shooting in Connecticut <a href="http://youtu.be/L03m7D7XGV4">by saying</a> that Satan literally took possession of shooter Adam Lanza and carried out the attack ... but "that doesn't exonerate the person of their responsibility" for what happened because Lanza knew what he was doing:&nbsp;</p>
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Kyle MantylaAmerican Family Association ConnecticutSandy HookTim Wildmon C3Fighting the Right41775Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:24:19 -0400ConnecticutOperation Save America Calls Sandy Hook Interfaith Memorial Service an 'Affront to Almighty God'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/operation-save-america-calls-sandy-hook-interfaith-memorial-service-affront-almighty-god
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<p>When James Holmes opened fired in a Colorado movie theater in July, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others, Operation Save America quickly <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/flip-benham-declares-co-shooter-be-spawn-ideology-democratic-party">issued a press release</a> calling Holmes "an Occupy Wall Street guy" who is "the spawn of the ideology of the Democratic Party."</p>
<p>So it is no surprise that the group has also <a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/4640671109.html">issued a press release</a> following the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, blaming it on the removal of God from public schools while calling the interfaith memorial service held on Sunday "an affront to Almighty God" for not mentioning Jesus enough:</p>
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<p>Watching the Memorial service for the twenty-six precious lives taken from us was painful to say the least, but it was far more painful to the God who made America great. Newtown cancelled Christmas so it could properly mourn. How foolish, yet typical of governmental strategy to replace God. The "Interfaith" service was an affront to Almighty God. Those claiming to be His priests barely mentioned His Name --Jesus! After all, He is the only God there is!</p>
<p>"My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children." Hosea 4:6.</p>
<p>Can there be any doubt in anyone's mind today that America is in deep trouble? Blood is coursing down the corridors of our schools, workplaces, and streets and we look at each other with awkward amazement wondering what in the world has happened to us. We are being drained of every last penny of our wealth. We are losing our kids to gangs, drugs, violence, suicide, murder and every imaginable trivial pursuit. Our schools have become veritable jungles where survival of the fittest is the law of the hallway.</p>
<p>What happened? We violently removed the fear of Almighty God from the hearts of our children. We expelled God from school and banished Him from the schoolyard. He was replaced with metal detectors, condoms, policemen, anti-bullying policies, No-gun zones, and violence of unprecedented order. Our strategy has replaced God's Truth. We are losing our kids because we are ignoring God's Law.</p>
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Kyle MantylaConnecticutFlip Benham Operation Save America Pat McEwenSandy HookC3Fighting the Right41772Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:47:39 -0400ConnecticutDobson: Connecticut Shooting was God Allowing 'Judgment to Fall Upon Us' for Turning Our Back on Himhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dobson-connecticut-shooting-was-god-allowing-judgment-fall-upon-us-turning-our-back-him
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<p>James Dobson dedicated his radio program <a href="http://www.drjamesdobson.org/Broadcasts/Broadcast?i=32d0ea7c-eeb2-41fb-9c05-f6e0c733d58a">this morning</a> to discussing Friday's tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut, which he attributed to the fact that God has "allowed judgment to fall upon us" because the nation has turned its back on him by accepting things like abortion and gay marriage:</p>
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<p>Our country really does seem in complete disarray. I'm not talking politically, I'm not talking about the result of the November sixth election;&nbsp; I am saying that something has gone wrong in America and that we have turned our back on God.</p>
<p>I mean millions of people have decided that God doesn't exist, or he's irrelevant to me and we have killed fifty-four million babies and the institution of marriage is right on the verge of a complete redefinition.&nbsp; Believe me, that is going to have consequences too.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now, but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the Scripture and on God Almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to fall upon us.&nbsp; I think that's what's going on.</p>
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Kyle MantylaConnecticutJames Dobson Sandy HookC3Family TalkFighting the Right41770Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:32:00 -0400ConnecticutFischer: God Didn't Stop CT School Shooting Because He's a 'Gentleman' Who Doesn't Go Where He Is Not Wantedhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-god-didnt-stop-ct-school-shooting-because-hes-gentleman-who-doesnt-go-where-he-not-w
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<p>Bryan Fischer spent the first hour of his radio program today discussing this morning's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/nyregion/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school.html?_r=0">truly horrific shooting</a> at an elementary school in Connecticut, which he, of course, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQqk9WzrZmA">blamed</a> on the fact that prayer, the Bible, and the Ten Commandments are not taught in public schools.</p>
<p>Fischer <a href="http://youtu.be/is2x7QTZ8AI">said</a> that God could have protected the victims of this massacre, but didn't because "God is not going to go where he is not wanted" and so if school administrators really want to protect students, they will start every school day with prayer:</p>
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Kyle MantylaAmerican Family Association Bryan FischerConnecticutSandy HookC3Fighting the Right41768Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:17:53 -0400ConnecticutSteve Deace Ties Connecticut Shooting to Public Schools' 'Culture of Death'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/steve-deace-ties-connecticut-shooting-public-schools-culture-death
<p>Right-wing talk show host <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/stevedeace/">Steve Deace</a> writes on his Facebook page that the public school system is partly to blame for the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, because public schools, he claims, promote a &ldquo;culture of death.&rdquo;</p>
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Brian TashmanConnecticutgun controlgun violenceSandy HookSteve DeaceC3Fighting the Right41767Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:35:04 -0400ConnecticutFamily Research Council's Tony Perkins Hails Campaign to Ban Day of Silence over its 'Promotion of Homosexuality'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/family-research-council-tony-perkins-ban-day-of-silence
<p>With anti-gay organizations like the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America and Liberty Counsel urging students to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/linda-harvey-dubs-anti-bullying-day-silence-god-dishonoring-day">walkout of schools on April 20th to protest the Day of Silence</a>, a day when students in many schools remain silent to draw attention to anti-gay bias and bullying, the Family Research Council is now <a href="http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2012/04/12/family-research-council-itching-to-be-humiliated-again-by-glsen/">endorsing</a> one Connecticut pastor&rsquo;s efforts to have the school prohibit any student from participating in the Day of Silence.</p>
<p>According to the <a href="http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2012/04/10/news/milford/doc4f84d75f51992937771478.txt?viewmode=fullstory"><em>New Haven Register</em></a>, Loomer&rsquo;s campaign is based on material from rabidly anti-gay activist <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/linda-harvey">Linda Harvey of Mission America</a>, along with <a href="http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2012/04/12/family-research-council-itching-to-be-humiliated-again-by-glsen/">debunked claims</a> that the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, which spearheads the Day of Silence, distributes pornographic material to children, pastor James Loomer of Milford is trying to convince his local school board to forbid students from partaking in the event. However, the <a href="http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2012/04/10/news/milford/doc4f84d75f51992937771478.txt?viewmode=fullstory">school board&rsquo;s own legal counsel</a> and the <a href="http://www.aclutx.org/2012/01/17/know-your-rights-student-expression-and-the-day-of-silence-2/">American Civil Liberties Union</a> notes that students have a right to participate in the Day of Silence during non-instructional time.</p>
<p>But Loomer&rsquo;s unconstitutional and anti-gay ploy was rewarded with an interview on FRC president Tony Perkins&rsquo; radio show <a href="http://www.frc.org/washingtonwatchweeklyradio/washington-watch-weekly-radio-show-april-13-2012"><em>Washington Watch Weekly</em></a>, where Loomer said that &ldquo;parents will be so appalled at what the Day of Silence could lead their children into&rdquo; and Perkins noted that while he opposed bullying, he also opposed anti-bullying efforts like the Day of Silence because it is &ldquo;cover for the promotion of homosexuality&rdquo; and commended Loomer&rsquo;s efforts to ban it.</p>
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<blockquote> <strong>Loomer</strong>: If the board decides they don&rsquo;t want to take any corrective actions we&rsquo;re already making plans to call the city families together and just apprise them of the situation. I think the parents will be so appalled at what the Day of Silence could lead their children into that they&rsquo;re going to want to stand up and say, &lsquo;let&rsquo;s get rid of this.&rsquo; There are alternative programs that focus on disrupting the bullying that goes on in schools but this is one that&rsquo;s got a serious kickback to it.<br />
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<strong>Perkins</strong>: Look, bullying should not be taking place in our schools, every child in America should be able to go to school&mdash;public school, private school, wherever&mdash;without the fear of threat or being intimidated, regardless of what the cause is, whether they&rsquo;re overweight, whether their religious viewpoints, no child should be bullied because they are effeminate or because of their sexual orientation or whatever, it shouldn&rsquo;t happen, but we cannot allow these programs like the Day of Silence to come into our schools as a cover for the promotion of homosexuality. That&rsquo;s what is happening with this so we appreciate Pastor Loomer and others who are drawing attention to this in communities across the country. </blockquote>Brian TashmanAnti-GaybullyingC4ConnecticutTony Perkins Family Research CouncilFighting the Right39636Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:50:28 -0400Connecticut